Selfmadehero okt 2013 (2 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a series of hilarious parodies, Sylvain Coissard and Alexis Lemoine answer the nagging questions of art history: what caused The Scream Why is Van Gogh's Yellow Bedroom so suspiciously tidy Why is CÃ zanne wearing a bandage in his famous self-portrait This book is for anyone who wants to know what happened before the Mona Lisa smiled. Or, rather, what might have happened. Lemoine, Alexis (illustrator).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A sci-fi tale which has all the echoes of a David Lynch film. Almost cinematic in style, in the breathless opening to this graphic novel we get a traffic jam due to a wounded elephant; a blind pigkeeper; an alien-looking grey baby; a cavalier and alcoholic skirt-chasing surgeon; and a beanpole of a Swiss secret policeman. Our heroine, Carice, walks from her car through the woods, as if in a trance, to a hospital to visit her diplomat husband, indisposed from a car accident. Her goodbye note, which she intends to deliver in person, is in her purse. The hospital is vast, remote, and foreboding, filled with suitable loonies. The book's first third ends with Carice waking an apparently dead body in the morgue with her whistling. Chopin the body asks. Carice nods. We learn of her too-early marriage, her dashed dreams as a concert pianist, and in the course of conversation realize that the aged cadaver she's talking to is her future self.…